[linux-audio-dev] LADSPA "Unique" IDs

Chris Cannam cannam at all-day-breakfast.com
Thu Jul 29 08:36:41 UTC 2004


On Thursday 29 Jul 2004 9:00 am, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:17:03AM +0100, Chris Cannam wrote:
> >   /* This identifier can be used as a unique, case-sensitive
> >      identifier for the plugin type within the plugin file.
> > Plugin types should be identified by file and label rather than
> > by index or plugin name, which may be changed in new plugin
> >      versions. Labels must not contain white-space characters. */
> >
> > To me this makes it pretty plain that filename and label is at
> > least intended to be a valid unique ID within your filesystem,
> > and in practice I'd expect it to be an effective id for the
> > plugin anywhere in the world.
>
> I think it should be: local filenames are unique, and labels are
> required to be unique in the file.

Is that different from what I said?


Chris




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